Megaphone

Megaphone

Article excerpt

Amusing, interesting, and provocative comments from the field of education

"Developing students' capacity to interpret information, and then to make, critique and revise claims based on evidence must be a primary goal of education. That implies a shift from the current educational emphasis on students showing what they know on standardized tests to instead giving prominence to students demonstrating that they can find out what they need to know and use that information to solve problems."